Assignment

1. Packet capturing software or sniffers can be powerful management and security tools. By using the filtering capability that is built in. you can trace traffic base on several different criteria and eliminate everything else. use the filtering capability built into wireshark to do the following:

a. Capture only traffic coming from your computer's MAC address.
b. Capture only traffic coming from your computer's IP address.
c. Capture only UDP- based transmissions.

2. Do some online research on how small businesses and entrepreneurs use the internet. look for information on why small businesses are attracted to the internet and the benefits that they derive from using it. Also look for information on how small business use of the internet is evolving. Summarize your findings in a short paper of 500 words.

3. Find and view several youtube videos on the importance of DNS and DNS basic operations. identify the URL's of three to five videos that do the best job of clearly describing the role of DNS in internet operations and how DNS works. If you could only recommend one video to fellow business data communication students, which would you choose?why? Summarize your recommendations and justifications in a brief 500 word paper.

4. Do some internet research on virtualization and the major vendors that are driving the evolution of virtualization. Compose a 500 word paper that summarizes the factors that drive business interest in virtualization and identifies the major vendors that are providing businesses with virtualization technologies and services.

5. Do some internet research on third party data centers and how they are being used within business networks. compose 500 word paper that summarizes the major reasons why businesses are partnering with third party data centers and the major ways that third party data centers are being used within enterprise networks.